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Bloodsport 3…The Trials of Judge Kavanaugh

by coldwarrior ( 204 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Open thread, Politics at October 3rd, 2018 - 10:14 pm

When we last left our intrepid hero, his enemy’s plans and stories were all falling apart as we move closer to the thrilling conclusion!

The saga continues.

Also: the boys over at ADP say that there were 230,000 jobs added last quarter (ADP does a lot of companies payrolls, so they are pretty accurate about this topic). The economists predicted 180k. also: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cited a “remarkably positive outlook” for a U.S. economy enjoying both low unemployment and inflation. A reporter asked Powell after last week’s Fed meeting whether the outlook was “too good to be true,” and he said it was “a reasonable question.”

Can this last? Sure it can, America is being rebuilt one factory and machine shop and wellhead at a time. American industries were gutted from 1980’s onward now all of this has to be rebuilt. I tried to beat this into the heads of our Nevertrumpers, but they could not see the situation right i front of their wannabe elitists noses. Obama and Bush and Clinton and Bush Sr did Trump sort of a favor. They destroyed the mightiest economy in the history of the world for their globalist masters and now it has to be rebuilt. This is a true joy to watch. Those jobs aren’t coming back? really? They aren’t? ummmhmmm.

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204 Responses to “Bloodsport 3…The Trials of Judge Kavanaugh”
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  1. eaglesoars
    1 | October 3, 2018 10:24 pm

    I DO see the Cassandra’s moaning about a debt bomb. I think $131 trillion or something. Not to be scoffed at certainly.

    My concern is not that so much, it’s that as we grow, we’ll need customers. Europe is becoming more and more moribund. If the Brits could figure out how to add and subtract, Brexit would have been a done deal a year ago and Brussels would look like Slovakia.

    Poland is a bright spot. As is Hungary


  2. AZfederalist
    2 | October 3, 2018 10:26 pm

    There are a lot of things we don’t make anymore because of policies and regulations. Make those more rational, and more of that returns to the US. Won’t be armies of minimum wage slaves making them but automated assembly processes that keep the prices competitive.


  3. coldwarrior
    3 | October 3, 2018 10:32 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    debt as a % of real GDP is falling. that is the real number to watch.


  4. 4 | October 3, 2018 10:34 pm

    I keep hearing from the libs that every time there’s a crash, a Republican’s in office, and every recovery is because of liberal policies. Great Depression? Hoover’s fault. FDR saved America. Bush II? Worst economy ever. Obama? Miracle worker!

    How do you argue against this?


  5. eaglesoars
    5 | October 3, 2018 10:36 pm

    Look who was at the Christine Ford hearing.

    Monica McClean. With pictures

    https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1047667347341955077


  6. rain of lead
    6 | October 3, 2018 10:40 pm

    @ right_wing2:

    Reagan
    Trump

    lived through both economic expansions


  7. eaglesoars
    7 | October 3, 2018 10:42 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    debt as a % of real GDP is falling. that is the real number to watch.

    good point

    right_wing2 wrote:

    How do you argue against this?

    facts. The Great Depression was global and actually began with agriculture failure in South American.

    World War II saved the American economy.

    etc. etc.

    The facts your lib friends are stating are neither correlations nor causation. They do not exist in a vacuum w/o context.


  8. Calo
    8 | October 3, 2018 10:43 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    If I remember reading this story correctly, Christina Ford )retired FBI agent) stated she was in the same town (or house) as her BFF, Monica McClean, when she wrote her letter to DiFi. And, Christina said last Thursday, she didn’t know how to submit her letter to the FBI, after she wrote it.

    Horseshit.


  9. coldwarrior
    9 | October 3, 2018 10:46 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    @ right_wing2:

    Reagan
    Trump

    lived through both economic expansions

    http://politicsthatwork.com/economic-record-president/eisenhower


  10. coldwarrior
    10 | October 3, 2018 10:47 pm

    @ right_wing2:
    economies are not in 4 and 8 year chunks either.


  11. lobo91
    11 | October 3, 2018 10:49 pm

    right_wing2 wrote:

    I keep hearing from the libs that every time there’s a crash, a Republican’s in office, and every recovery is because of liberal policies. Great Depression? Hoover’s fault. FDR saved America. Bush II? Worst economy ever. Obama? Miracle worker!

    How do you argue against this?

    Ask what, specifically, those “miracle workers” (especially Obama) did to “save America.”

    After a few seconds of blank stares, they’ll probably call you a racist and walk away.


  12. coldwarrior
    12 | October 3, 2018 10:54 pm

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday night and filed cloture to end debate on Kavanaugh’s nomination. Through that process, a procedural vote will take place Friday, followed by a confirmation vote at some point Saturday.


  13. eaglesoars
    13 | October 3, 2018 10:55 pm

    Well, lemme think. Seems that guy arrested Jackson Cosko for doxxing was a something or other on Sheila Jackson Lees staff most currently. Remember that woman, Lee, popped up during the Ford testimony and handing something to Ford’s lawyer?

    probably nothing


  14. eaglesoars
    14 | October 3, 2018 10:57 pm

    my face is so swollen I look like Mitch McConnell.


  15. yenta-fada
    15 | October 3, 2018 11:02 pm

    https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1047639114567376896/photo/1

    9:30 am tomorrow. All hands on deck.


  16. yenta-fada
    16 | October 3, 2018 11:02 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    my face is so swollen I look like Mitch McConnell.

    Maybe you need glasses?


  17. rain of lead
    17 | October 3, 2018 11:13 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    spent the day at the dentist?
    yeah, me too
    gotta go back tomorrow and have the 2nd half done


  18. 18 | October 3, 2018 11:18 pm

    @ lobo91:
    It’ll come down to ‘high taxes, lots of free crap, raising minimum wage, regulation, punishing success…’


  19. AZfederalist
    19 | October 3, 2018 11:28 pm

    right_wing2 wrote:

    FDR saved America.

    FDR’s policies were shown to have deepened and lengthened the depression. He was no miracle worker. Obama? Remember when the best we could hope for was 2% GDP growth as the new norm and those jobs that weren’t coming back. Economy sort of recovered despite Obama’s policies, not because of them.


  20. eaglesoars
    20 | October 3, 2018 11:28 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    spent the day at the dentist?

    had surgery yesterday. They installed the posts for the implants.

    what’s your fun story?

    A new name has come up in the Russia collusion investigation. It’s someone no one has ever heard of before and ‘we’ still don’t know who it is. Baker spilled his guts and Jordan and Meadows are loaded for bear

    Top FBI lawyer Baker offers ‘explosive’ testimony on ‘abnormal’ handling of Russia probe into Trump campaign: lawmakers

    “During the time that the FBI was putting — that DOJ and FBI were putting together the FISA (surveillance warrant) during the time prior to the election — there was another source giving information directly to the FBI, which we found the source to be pretty explosive,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

    Meadows and Jordan would not elaborate on the source, or answer questions about whether the source was a reporter. They did stress that the source who provided information to the FBI’s Russia case was not previously known to congressional investigators.

    who in the Trump campaign? when we find out, we’re all gonna face palm.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-fbi-lawyer-baker-offers-explosive-testimony-on-abnormal-handling-of-russia-probe-into-trump-campaign-lawmakers


  21. rain of lead
    21 | October 3, 2018 11:32 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    nothing as bad as yours, just a long overdue really deep cleaning
    some gum infection/bleeding
    getting the other half done tomorrow,
    thank god for pain killers


  22. eaglesoars
    22 | October 3, 2018 11:36 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    thank god for pain killers

    you might want to try the stuff they use for teething babies


  23. eaglesoars
    23 | October 3, 2018 11:37 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1047639114567376896/photo/1

    9:30 am tomorrow. All hands on deck.

    dorian mentioned that downstairs. I don’t know enough to know if it’s out of the norm or not


  24. rain of lead
    24 | October 3, 2018 11:44 pm

    bedtime

    nite


  25. CynicalConservative
    25 | October 3, 2018 11:47 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Whiskey for $500 Alex?


  26. yenta-fada
    26 | October 3, 2018 11:50 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    yenta-fada wrote:

    https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1047639114567376896/photo/1

    9:30 am tomorrow. All hands on deck.

    dorian mentioned that downstairs. I don’t know enough to know if it’s out of the norm or not

    Not normal afaik. There’s another w/Sessions around noon. Not a slow news day for the rest of the week.


  27. eaglesoars
    27 | October 3, 2018 11:54 pm

    CynicalConservative wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    Whiskey for $500 Alex?

    due to an auto accident in 1982 and an autoimmune disorder that has resulted in liver cirrhosis, I’ve lost all my teeth. Complete implant replacement. Not to mention that a few got knocked out when one of my dogs when after a squirrel and I face planted on the sidewalk and the other knocked a few more out when she had a seizure and head-butted me.

    stuff like that


  28. eaglesoars
    29 | October 3, 2018 11:56 pm

    yenta-fada wrote:

    There’s another w/Sessions around noon.

    belay that report. I saw the ‘subpoena’. There’s no letterhead and a lot of blank spaces. I know it’s on the judiciary website, but there’s nothing on the schedule.

    fishy


  29. eaglesoars
    31 | October 4, 2018 12:13 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    rain of lead wrote:

    spent the day at the dentist?

    had surgery yesterday. They installed the posts for the implants.

    what’s your fun story?

    A new name has come up in the Russia collusion investigation. It’s someone no one has ever heard of before and ‘we’ still don’t know who it is. Baker spilled his guts and Jordan and Meadows are loaded for bear

    Top FBI lawyer Baker offers ‘explosive’ testimony on ‘abnormal’ handling of Russia probe into Trump campaign: lawmakers

    “During the time that the FBI was putting — that DOJ and FBI were putting together the FISA (surveillance warrant) during the time prior to the election — there was another source giving information directly to the FBI, which we found the source to be pretty explosive,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

    Meadows and Jordan would not elaborate on the source, or answer questions about whether the source was a reporter. They did stress that the source who provided information to the FBI’s Russia case was not previously known to congressional investigators.

    who in the Trump campaign? when we find out, we’re all gonna face palm.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-fbi-lawyer-baker-offers-explosive-testimony-on-abnormal-handling-of-russia-probe-into-trump-campaign-lawmakers

    Russia collusion bombshell: DNC lawyers met with FBI on dossier before surveillance warrant

    Congressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before the bureau secured a search warrant targeting Trump’s campaign.

    Former FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee’s private law firm.

    That’s the firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to secretly pay research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative, to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential election.

    https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/409817-russia-collusion-bombshell-dnc-lawyers-met-with-fbi-on-dossier-before


  30. yenta-fada
    32 | October 4, 2018 12:20 am

    @ yenta-fada:

    Christine Ford had to know she wasn’t a credible witness regarding her OWN behavior. She’s crazy in the most mean girl way. Not too
    concerned about the destruction she causes in the lives of others. Perhaps that’s why she doesn’t have family at these hearings. They know how toxic she is.

    Because she grew up in so much privilege, she is accustomed to getting away with bad behavior & having it covered up.


  31. yenta-fada
    33 | October 4, 2018 12:26 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    You have been talking about British involvement all along. A lot of things seem to be coming to light at once. Maybe Trump is ready to show us some documents.

    The Left has NO SHAME. They will pump up the media propaganda as Trump goes through the lawful process and bags these creatures.


  32. eaglesoars
    34 | October 4, 2018 12:29 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1047639114567376896/photo/1

    9:30 am tomorrow. All hands on deck.

    oh wait. declassified docs? FISA?


  33. eaglesoars
    35 | October 4, 2018 12:31 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    Trump is ready to show us some documents.

    GMTA. mebbe. I have to go to bed. Sitting up.

    nite.


  34. eaglesoars
    36 | October 4, 2018 12:36 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Former FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee’s private law firm.

    one name being mentioned is Michael Sussman.


  35. yenta-fada
    37 | October 4, 2018 12:37 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Tweet dreams 🙂


  36. Deplorable Bumr50
    38 | October 4, 2018 12:43 am

    https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-ben-sasse-on-brett-kavanaugh-trump-should-nominate-someone-else-2018-10

    Ben Sasse is going full NeverTrump. This was tonight.


  37. eaglesoars
    39 | October 4, 2018 12:46 am

    @ Deplorable Bumr50:

    Sasse is a coward whose natural environ is under his desk, quivering.

    out.


  38. rain of lead
    40 | October 4, 2018 7:34 am

    morning y’all


  39. rain of lead
    41 | October 4, 2018 7:42 am

    well here we go
    let the circus continue

    https://www.weaselzippers.us/398723-breaking-senate-receives-fbi-report-on-kavanaugh-allegations/


  40. rain of lead
    42 | October 4, 2018 8:15 am

    http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=377418


  41. coldwarrior
    43 | October 4, 2018 8:17 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    Breaking news for Cold Warrior

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-02/johns-hopkins-researchers-say-magic-mushrooms-should-be-decriminalized

    I dont even need to read that to agree.


  42. 44 | October 4, 2018 8:28 am

    @ rain of lead:
    I’d love to see a limit on the time after someone is nominated for allegations to be investigated. For example you have 90 days to make claims against a nominee.


  43. eaglesoars
    45 | October 4, 2018 8:56 am

    @ right_wing2:

    There IS! Why do you think everybody was so pissed at DiFi? She dropped this when they were ready to vote, after every deadline in the book.

    There have to be consequences for this – like getting thrown off the committee and having all your clearances yanked.


  44. coldwarrior
    46 | October 4, 2018 8:59 am

    have yinz noticed that WH staff are smacking the press around daily. no more roll-over-and-take-it GOPe (inc) ™ (r). i love the ‘real’ men and women of trump’s team.


  45. coldwarrior
    47 | October 4, 2018 9:07 am

    @ coldwarrior:
    oh, and senators graham and mconnell have also grown a set of balls. the gop is being taken over by fighters and brawlers, finally.

    the era of the spineless elitist is over.


  46. 49 | October 4, 2018 9:50 am

    right_wing2 wrote:

    I keep hearing from the libs that every time there’s a crash, a Republican’s in office, and every recovery is because of liberal policies. Great Depression? Hoover’s fault. FDR saved America. Bush II? Worst economy ever. Obama? Miracle worker!

    How do you argue against this?

    Well, since I’m dealing with liberals, I tend to use small words and lots of colorful pictures.


  47. 50 | October 4, 2018 10:23 am

    Grassley’s statement on FBI report:

    https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2018/10/04/grassley-releases-a-hyuuuuge-statement-on-the-fbis-report/

    Democrats, who had said a week was sufficient, are probably already planning their attack. Most significant for me is Ford’s attorneys squawking that the FBI didn’t interview her (also their convenient reason for keeping the therapist’s notes from the committee, as if one had anything to do with the other). Sound familiar? “She won’t testify until there’s an FBI investigation!”

    They WANT the FBI to interview their client? Are they insane? This is tantamount to malpractice. You NEVER willingly expose your client to the jeopardy of criminal charges if you can possibly avoid it. They had several hours of her testimony. Do Katz, et al., really want the FBI to sit their client down and interview her, with the possiblity that she forgets what her “line” is supposed to be and then states something different. That’s lying to the FBI, the process crime that Michael Flynn was charged with. And for those libs that say “this isn’t with regard to a criminal investigation” – neither was Flynn’s. He thought the FBI was only seeking information.


  48. coldwarrior
    51 | October 4, 2018 10:46 am

    @ The Barbarian:
    the delay tactic is over. trump expertly called their bluff, now its time to vote.

    the vote is gonna put a crimp in my college football watchin’, but i’ll suffer through…somehow


  49. coldwarrior
    52 | October 4, 2018 10:58 am

    big nothingburger at the presser…russia spies on countries. no! really???


  50. 53 | October 4, 2018 11:02 am

    @ coldwarrior:

    Word on Twitter is that Manchin is a yes, but I’ll believe it when I see it. I’ll be curious to see what those Democrat Senators who are falling behind in the polls in the Red states do, especially in North Dakota, Indiana and Tennessee.

    And I can’t figure out how Murkowsky thinks she can run for re-election in Alaska if she votes no on Kavanugh. I’d like to think she was just “performing” for the cameras and will be a yes. I wonder if the GOP leadership had a Come to Jesus meeting with Flake and told him outright that if he voted no on Kavanaugh he was finished in GOP politics and he better hope the Democrats want him to run for THEIR nomination in 2020.

    I won’t be home when the vote is going on. I’ll cross my fingers and tune in here and hope for the best, like I did with the 2016 election. Oh, and by the way, my little sis stopped by to read Sunday’s screed and she thinks we’re all GREAT!


  51. 54 | October 4, 2018 11:04 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    big nothingburger at the presser…russia spies on countries. no! really???

    Old and Busted=Trump-Russia Collusion

    New and Hot=Russia Framed Lance Armstrong.


  52. 55 | October 4, 2018 11:04 am

    @ coldwarrior:

    THAT was the reason for their “stop the presses!” alert yesterday?
    Why not just announce that “water is wet” while you’re at it?


  53. 56 | October 4, 2018 11:06 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    Old and Busted=Trump-Russia Collusion

    Hmmm… wonder if Mueller is starting to think that so-called “report” won’t be needed after the mid-terms AFTER all.

    You know, the one good thing about the idiot Congress continuing to foul up DC is that they aren’t in their districts campaigning, which is giving their challengers lots of time to go out in the community and tell them they will lose the good economy if the Dems retake power.


  54. coldwarrior
    57 | October 4, 2018 11:07 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Oh, and by the way, my little sis stopped by to read Sunday’s screed and she thinks we’re all GREAT!

    wooohooo!!!!

    we are the greatest! 😆


  55. coldwarrior
    58 | October 4, 2018 11:07 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Word on Twitter is that Manchin is a yes

    he needs to switch to gop


  56. coldwarrior
    59 | October 4, 2018 11:08 am

    @ doriangrey:

    these peeps are giving me a headache


  57. eaglesoars
    60 | October 4, 2018 11:40 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Word on Twitter is that Manchin is a yes

    he needs to switch to gop

    no. He’s a crook. His niece/daughter (niece I think) heads up the pharma that makes Epi-pen which is HIDEOUSLY EXPENSIVE. And there was some patent issue that precluded other mgfrs re-engineering it. Manchin appointed his wife to some board or other that MANDATED all schools in the state had to have 2 of the things.

    no. Let the Dems keep him until WV throws his ass out for a real conservative


  58. eaglesoars
    61 | October 4, 2018 11:45 am

    Susan Collins has just declared the FBI rpt to be ‘very thorough’


  59. coldwarrior
    62 | October 4, 2018 11:57 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    no. Let the Dems keep him until WV throws his ass out for a real conservative

    that’ll work too


  60. eaglesoars
    63 | October 4, 2018 12:00 pm

    Here’s another one who needs to be disbarred

    On Thursday morning Attorney Debra Katz released a new statement claiming Ford has witnesses to corroborate her testimony.

    just fuck off

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/activist-anti-trump-attorney-debra-katz-now-says-christine-ford-has-witnesses-to-corroborate-her-testimony/

    Flake has just said he agrees w/Collins


  61. eaglesoars
    64 | October 4, 2018 12:01 pm

    That’s Collins and Flake. I don’t think Miss Murkey is willing to stand there all by her lonsesome just cuz DiFi yells at her


  62. eaglesoars
    65 | October 4, 2018 12:07 pm

    This is a good article on tariffs and how they can and usually do work for some things (not applicable to everything, I think). It pretty much explains my understanding better than I can (and if I’m wrong, CW will correct, I’m sure).

    And it’s why I think Ben Shapiro isn’t as smart as he thinks he is

    For example, suppose President Trump were to impose a 10 percent tariff on all Chinese toasters.

    Black & Decker makes toasters in China. These toasters sell for $60 in American stores. That’s the retail price. Are tariffs imposed on retail prices? No. This means that the price of toasters will not rise by 10 percent—$66 toasters are a media-concocted boogeyman.

    So just how much would this hypothetical tariff increase the price of toasters?

    American stores buy their toasters from Chinese manufacturers. But because of China’s (intentionally) convoluted regulatory framework, they often buy them via middlemen located in Hong Kong, Singapore, or Taiwan. These middlemen charge somewhere in the neighborhood of $14 per toaster.

    And of course these middlemen don’t work for free: they buy the toasters directly from Chinese factories for $7 per toaster. This is the first sale price, and tariffs are calculated on this figure. Thus the tariff charged on a Black & Decker toaster that retails for $60 works out to just 70 cents.

    American consumers don’t pay 10 percent more for toasters—they pay just 1.15 percent more. And that’s assuming Black & Decker doesn’t simply source its toasters from one of China’s competitors, in which case consumers may not see any prices increase whatsoever.

    https://amgreatness.com/2018/10/03/how-trumps-tariffs-will-make-goods-cheaper/


  63. eaglesoars
    66 | October 4, 2018 12:20 pm

    dorian, you might want to see this, I don’t have time to run it down. I don’t know the source (it’s Blasey family CIA stuff)

    https://twitter.com/STurtalia/status/1046715719356796928


  64. eaglesoars
    67 | October 4, 2018 12:31 pm

    filed under ‘tweets that did not age well’

    Thanks to all of you who encouraged me to consider filibuster reform. It had to be done.

    Harry Reid Nov 21 2013

    https://twitter.com/SenatorReid/status/403615847190921216

    I love a comment;

    @SenatorReid well done Senator. The Fascist GOP were juvenile and purposely destroying our govt. Thanks for the courage and your leadership

    Rush reporting Dems leaving Schumer’s office stone faced.


  65. eaglesoars
    68 | October 4, 2018 12:37 pm

    well well well

    Jackson Coskos, the punk arrested for doxing, has a very interesting daddy. He’s business partner w/DiFi’s hubby and has landed LOTS of gov’t jobs in SF, etc. Mom works for big pharma

    And Jackson seems to have an arrest for MDMA distribution at GW univ.

    Think maybe Trump knows who Jackson’s daddy is. You betcha!

    https://twitter.com/almostjingo/status/1047715306003546112


  66. 69 | October 4, 2018 12:39 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Here’s another one who needs to be disbarred

    On Thursday morning Attorney Debra Katz released a new statement claiming Ford has witnesses to corroborate her testimony.

    just fuck off

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/activist-anti-trump-attorney-debra-katz-now-says-christine-ford-has-witnesses-to-corroborate-her-testimony/

    Flake has just said he agrees w/Collins

    Katz is an effing walking malpractice suit. She had all her answers ready. If the FBI HAD requested to interview her client, you can bet your bottom dollar her response would have been that they had hours of her testimony on the record and there was no need to interview her. Instead, FBI says they will NOT be interviewing her and she uses that as an excuse to withhold therapist’s notes requested by Committee and THEN make ludicrous demand FBI interview her client, KNOWING that they’ve completed it.

    Now says corroborative witness is available. Oh, really? Did Ford suddenly remember someone? This woman is literally asking for an investigation into perjury.


  67. 70 | October 4, 2018 12:41 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    I imagine RED Alaska is burning up her phone lines. Dirty Dianne is NOT the hill I would choose to die on; especially with the DNC in California not backing her and all of us in RED California willing to vote for her looney tune challenger just to get her out of office.


  68. coldwarrior
    71 | October 4, 2018 12:46 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Susan Collins has just declared the FBI rpt to be ‘very thorough’

    im sure trump had them start before the dems demanded it. he’s smart like that.


  69. coldwarrior
    72 | October 4, 2018 12:51 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    can i have a US made toaster instead?

    that is the point of these tariffs. level the playing field and let american companies compete. a lot of us will gladly pay more for a quality good that lasts a long time. hell, i still have my parent’s kenmore upright freezer that they bought in 1977!


  70. coldwarrior
    73 | October 4, 2018 1:08 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    this can be illustrated by my choice in cars:

    i have owned merceds-benzs for 26 year. whoa! colwarrior is loaded! no, no he isnt. i have owned 2 MBs in that time, the first was a mid 80’s 300 Turbo Diesel wagon (375k on the clock when i drove it to the junk yard in 2008, it only had 3rd gear left). i then went to the dealership and got a used 2003 MB e320 wagon…it now is pushing 200k. i have never had to replace anything other than normal wear parts and normal maintenance on either.

    2 cars in 26 year? there is nothing from detroit big 3 that i am interested in buying because they aren’t as reliable and are not built like an MB. i don’t want a new car every few years.

    so now, jeeze…i’m looking for a new vehicle…but how to buy american? i’m probably going to get a MB M-class, built in Alabama. I can afford a certified used with 20-30k on it and will probably give it to the Puti in 6 years when she is ready to drive.

    *her ready to drive? the horror*

    in the long run, because of the way MB builds cars, i will spend less money than if i buy another brand. why can’t big three do this?


  71. coldwarrior
    74 | October 4, 2018 1:10 pm

    https://www.speedqueen.com/

    yes, more expensive…but they last 25years or more.

    Speed Queen washers and dryers are tested to last 10,400 cycles. Using an average of 8 loads of laundry per week, that adds up to 25 years of use in your home. We receive daily messages and online reviews from homes around the globe who own machines that are 25, 30 even 40+ years old. Our commitment to American Quality is proven in the reliability of our machines and your peace of mind.


  72. coldwarrior
    75 | October 4, 2018 1:47 pm

    😆

    graham channels his inner monty python.


  73. eaglesoars
    76 | October 4, 2018 1:52 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    SPEED QUEEN? never heard of it, never even seen it. Next time.


  74. 77 | October 4, 2018 1:56 pm

    For National Poetry Day:

    Grassley is Red
    Feinstein is Blue
    Ford is a Liar
    And Swetnick is Too.


  75. coldwarrior
    78 | October 4, 2018 2:00 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    i didnt know about them either…my parent’s friends have a washer/dryer set that is pushing 30 years…

    had i known, i would have bought them last time.

    next time.


  76. eaglesoars
    79 | October 4, 2018 2:03 pm

    Prediction: It closes in less than a week

    Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow to Star on Broadway in ‘Hillary and Clinton’ (Exclusive)

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/laurie-metcalf-john-lithgow-star-broadway-hillary-clinton-1149081

    Time to MoveOn, people


  77. eaglesoars
    80 | October 4, 2018 2:03 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    For National Poetry Day:

    why?


  78. eaglesoars
    81 | October 4, 2018 2:14 pm

    this is 15 mins ago

    Privacy group seeks last-minute Brett Kavanaugh delay, citing ‘extraordinary’ new disclosure

    A prominent privacy rights organization says senators must delay confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until after they review newly identified documents on his role establishing Bush-era surveillance programs.

    The Electronic Privacy Information Center requested the last-minute delay in a Wednesday night letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., after being told of the existence of unreleased documents held by the National Archives.

    McConnell invoked cloture on Kavanaugh’s nomination at about the same time, setting in motion a possible confirmation vote this weekend, after the FBI reviewed sexual assault claims against the judge.

    EPIC president Marc Rotenberg told the Washington Examiner that the group received a communication from the National Archives around 5 p.m. on Wednesday indicating that Kavanaugh may have misled senators about his role in post-9/11 surveillance programs.

    I knew Marc back in the day, he used to be sane

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/privacy-group-seeks-last-minute-brett-kavanaugh-delay-citing-extraordinary-new-disclosure


  79. eaglesoars
    82 | October 4, 2018 2:24 pm

    I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!

    The Perkins Coie lawyer who is thought to be the FBI contact for the DNC is Michael Sussman

    Fox saying it’s Perkins Coie Partner Michael Sussman. Sussman was same one who contacted Crowdstrike immediately following DNC “Hack”

    Shawn Henry is a head honcho at Crowdstrike, former Asst Dir for Cybersecurity at the FBI, promoted to that position by Mueller, Henry headed up the DNC hack investigation for Crowdstrike and I’ve been saying for over a year it’s an inside job and Crowdstrike is a big contender.


  80. coldwarrior
    83 | October 4, 2018 2:30 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Electronic Privacy Information Center

    who?

    😆


  81. coldwarrior
    84 | October 4, 2018 2:30 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    declassify all of it


  82. coldwarrior
    86 | October 4, 2018 2:54 pm

    a little sptballin’

    trump fights hard, he will get nasty,

    i can see him pulling an october surprise on the dems


  83. eaglesoars
    87 | October 4, 2018 2:54 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Electronic Privacy Information Center

    who?

    They’ve been around in some form or other since forever. I became familiar with these issues when I began work in telecom and that’s how I met Marc. How much/what kind of information can a company collect on a call/customer, who gets to see it and under what circumstances, etc. The internet wasn’t a big thing back then, it was still pretty much DARPA/JPL focused, but we knew it wouldn’t stay there. It was the early days of Mosaic and people had email only at work.

    seems like ages ago


  84. 88 | October 4, 2018 3:01 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ coldwarrior:

    SPEED QUEEN? never heard of it, never even seen it. Next time.

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    i didnt know about them either…my parent’s friends have a washer/dryer set that is pushing 30 years…

    had i known, i would have bought them last time.

    next time.

    ROTFLMAO… I am going to presume that the two of you are serious. Your “White” privilege is clearly showing. Now, those of us who live in blue collar America, we know all about Speed Queen. Mostly on a count of, Speed Queen made themselves famous and one of the largest washing machine companies in America by producing Laundromat washing machines.

    Think coin operated washing machine or dryer, and you are thinking about a Speed Queen. My brother’s and I have been buying speed queens for decades. We actually started out buying used laundromat machines that had been reconditioned. These are machines designed not to wash/dry 8 loads a week for 25 years, but 24 loads a day for 10 years.

    I’ve had several that still had the coin slots on them. They just had the coin box and lock removed. By youngest brother, whom I live with now, is still grumbling about his wife getting rib of the brand new Speed Queen Washer dryer set he got her 20 years ago because they was 10 years old, not because they didn’t, but because they were “To old”.

    He;s been through 3 washer/dryer sets since then. Every time she starts complaining about the new washer or dryer, he starts cussing like a sailor and walks away on her.


  85. 89 | October 4, 2018 3:14 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    dorian, you might want to see this, I don’t have time to run it down. I don’t know the source (it’s Blasey family CIA stuff)

    https://twitter.com/STurtalia/status/1046715719356796928

    :mrgreen:


  86. rain of lead
    90 | October 4, 2018 3:18 pm

    heh
    double heh

    “You’ve humiliated this guy enough–there seems to be no bottom for some of ya,” Graham said.

    “If you would set up a polygraph it would be all over, Senator Graham,” said the protester.

    “Why don’t we dunk him in the water and see if he floats?” Graham shot back.


  87. 91 | October 4, 2018 3:26 pm

    Hillary Clinton goes to a gifted-student primary school in New York to talk about the world. After her talk she offers question time.

    One little boy puts up his hand. Hillary asks him what his name is. “Kenneth,” he says.

    “And what is your question, Kenneth?” she asks.

    “I have three questions,” he says.

    “First — whatever happened in Benghazi?

    “Second — why would you run for president if you are not capable of handling two e-mail accounts?

    “And, third — whatever happened to the missing six billion dollars while you were Secretary of State?”

    Just then the bell rings for recess. Hillary informs the kiddies that they will continue after recess.

    When they resume Hillary says, “Okay, where were we? Oh, that’s right, question time. Who has a question?”

    A different boy — little Johnny — puts his hand up.

    Hillary points to him and asks him what his name is.

    “Johnny,” he says.

    “And what is your question, Johnny?” she asks.

    “I have five questions,” he says.

    “First — whatever happened in Benghazi?

    “Second — why would you run for president if you are not capable of handling two e-mail accounts?

    “Third — whatever happened to the missing six billion dollars while you were Secretary of State?

    “Fourth — why did the recess bell go off 20 minutes early?

    “And, fifth — where’s Kenneth?”


  88. rain of lead
    92 | October 4, 2018 3:37 pm

    yup

    (2) If all the red-state Dem Senators (except maybe Manchin) vote with Schumer here, it’s going to make it a lot harder for Phil Bredesen to argue that he’ll be independent of Schumer if elected as a Democrat from Tennessee.


  89. coldwarrior
    93 | October 4, 2018 4:18 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    harder for Phil Bredesen to argue that he’ll be independent of Schumer if elected as a Democrat from Tennessee.

    does anyone believe that line anymore?


  90. coldwarrior
    94 | October 4, 2018 4:21 pm

    @ doriangrey:

    washer and a gas drier…900 or so each. i’m there as soon as these peices of garbage break…the washer will grenade in 3 years and the drier will die in 2.


  91. eaglesoars
    95 | October 4, 2018 4:43 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    washer and a gas drier…900 or so each. i’m there as soon as these peices of garbage break…the washer will grenade in 3 years and the drier will die in 2.

    mine die every 9 nine years like clockwork. The first set that we got with the brand new house died on the same freaking load. Magic.


  92. rain of lead
    96 | October 4, 2018 4:43 pm

    AMERICAN PSYCHO: DEMOCRAT DOXXER THREATENED TO REVEAL SENATORS’ CHILDREN’S HEALTH INFORMATION

    —Ace of Spades

    I thought he “merely” revealed their home addresses so that they could be harassed or shot like Steve Scalise.

    Oh no. Oh no no no.

    This isn’t your father’s Democrat Party anymore, honey.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/accused-doxxer-of-gop-senators-allegedly-threatened-to-publish-their-childrens-health-information


  93. rain of lead
    97 | October 4, 2018 4:44 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    rain of lead wrote:

    harder for Phil Bredesen to argue that he’ll be independent of Schumer if elected as a Democrat from Tennessee.

    does anyone believe that line anymore?

    no but ol lying phil is doing it anyway


  94. coldwarrior
    98 | October 4, 2018 4:54 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    coldwarrior wrote:

    washer and a gas drier…900 or so each. i’m there as soon as these peices of garbage break…the washer will grenade in 3 years and the drier will die in 2.

    mine die every 9 nine years like clockwork. The first set that we got with the brand new house died on the same freaking load. Magic.

    5 years on our last one


  95. coldwarrior
    99 | October 4, 2018 4:56 pm

    @ rain of lead:
    Lamb is doing that here for Congress, the pretend elitist morons in the upper middle burbs are lapping it up.

    Yinz ain’t the elite, nor will yinz ever be. The real elite live in fox chapel and sewickley heights and yinz aren’t invited.


  96. 100 | October 4, 2018 5:16 pm

    @ rain of lead:

    Heidi Heinkamp has already conceded defeat, I think. The fact that she’s not going to vote for Kavanaugh indicates that she KNOWS that she’s going to lose no matter what so she might as well say EFF YOU to the people of North Dakota on the way out.

    This is why the direct election of Senators is such a crock. They are supposed to represent their STATES to the Federal government. And that’s why their appointment by a legislature was important. They could be kicked out every six years if the state was not well-served in the Senate.


  97. coldwarrior
    101 | October 4, 2018 5:20 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!! I FUCKING KNEW IT!!

    The Perkins Coie lawyer who is thought to be the FBI contact for the DNC is Michael Sussman

    Fox saying it’s Perkins Coie Partner Michael Sussman. Sussman was same one who contacted Crowdstrike immediately following DNC “Hack”

    Shawn Henry is a head honcho at Crowdstrike, former Asst Dir for Cybersecurity at the FBI, promoted to that position by Mueller, Henry headed up the DNC hack investigation for Crowdstrike and I’ve been saying for over a year it’s an inside job and Crowdstrike is a big contender.

    i’ll get excited when people are disbarred, fined, and put in jail for these crimes.


  98. eaglesoars
    102 | October 4, 2018 6:55 pm

    Whoa, CW! Yinz got some floods going on…

    https://twitter.com/irishbob88/status/1047960081831219201

    Banksville Road – blast from the past….


  99. coldwarrior
    103 | October 4, 2018 7:00 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    The comments are hysterical


  100. coldwarrior
    104 | October 4, 2018 7:00 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    The south hills got stumped


  101. Possum
    105 | October 4, 2018 7:03 pm

    Totally off topic but one thing has me questioning the Presidential Alert test.

    Yep, I know many people said ” I turned off my phone deliberately so I would not get Trump texting me! ”

    However according to Twitter many people did not get the alert. I didn’t but the radio in the office did.

    Now, if this was a true test I think the testers should be asking people who did not get the alert to come forward so the reasons the ” test ” failed can be discovered.


  102. eaglesoars
    106 | October 4, 2018 7:08 pm

    Possum wrote:

    However according to Twitter many people did not get the alert.

    Apple or Android? I’ve heard android devices had no problem, Apple was iffy


  103. Possum
    107 | October 4, 2018 7:26 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    All that was required was a simple data collection site for those who never got the alert to provide some information.

    I would have given this information to them.

    Phone Number 979 436 xxxx
    Android 6.0.1
    Phone ZTE Z837VL
    ZIP code when test transmitted 77489

    And if they asked for the address in that ZIP code they could determine the most likely cell tower my phone was talking to.

    So, in my expert and professional opinion this “test” was a complete waste of money and resources.

    Whoever designed this “test” needs to be fired.


  104. Possum
    108 | October 4, 2018 7:28 pm

    @ Possum:

    LOL and yes stalkers my phone number does not match my ZIP code, but it is close. 🙂


  105. eaglesoars
    109 | October 4, 2018 7:36 pm

    Possum wrote:

    Whoever designed this “test” needs to be fired.

    well, there’s a reason it’s called a ‘test’


  106. lobo91
    110 | October 4, 2018 7:54 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Possum wrote:

    However according to Twitter many people did not get the alert.

    Apple or Android? I’ve heard android devices had no problem, Apple was iffy

    My phone is an Android. I got the message, but my phone didn’t make any noise.

    It happened during my lunch break, and I happened to be standing in line at Sonic. A dozen phones must have all gone off almost simultaneously, but not mine. I looked at it later and saw the text, though


  107. RIX
    111 | October 4, 2018 7:55 pm

    https://thegatewaypundit.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1f9b29171f5fb45edb2520ae&id=eb1316956b&e=d43a186674
    @GP
    The Resistance is actually worse than you thought.


  108. coldwarrior
    112 | October 4, 2018 8:01 pm

    @ RIX:

    send that soy-latte drinking pencil-necked geek to a fed lockup with bubba.


  109. eaglesoars
    113 | October 4, 2018 8:03 pm

    RIX wrote:

    The Resistance is actually worse than you thought.

    don’t know if you saw it, I posted upthread – soy boy’s daddy is a business partner of DiFi’s hubby


  110. Possum
    114 | October 4, 2018 8:06 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Possum wrote:

    Whoever designed this “test” needs to be fired.

    well, there’s a reason it’s called a ‘test’

    A test requires feedback on failures of the test.

    There is none


  111. eaglesoars
    115 | October 4, 2018 8:39 pm

    Possum wrote:

    There is none

    you know this how?

    Look at this crap

    Christine Ford legal team writes to FBI still wanting bureau to interview the polygrapher, Ford’s husband, and people, including Monica McLean, who say Ford told them about Kavanaugh at various times from 2013 to 2018.

    The letter is at the link. What BS. Nobody can corroborate anything because whatever did or did not happen, it was back in the 80s.

    https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1047894426067132416


  112. rain of lead
    116 | October 4, 2018 8:41 pm

    tells me ALL I need to know

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/03/mike-bloomberg-hosting-fundraiser-for-candidate-phil-bredesen.html

    Bloomberg isn’t backing him because he thinks he’ll protect your Second Amendment rights.


  113. RIX
    117 | October 4, 2018 8:48 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ RIX:

    send that soy-latte drinking pencil-necked geek to a fed lockup with bubba.

    I can get behind that. This guy will not do well in the joint.


  114. RIX
    118 | October 4, 2018 8:50 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    RIX wrote:

    The Resistance is actually worse than you thought.

    don’t know if you saw it, I posted upthread – soy boy’s daddy is a business partner of DiFi’s hubby

    figures.


  115. RIX
    119 | October 4, 2018 9:19 pm

    ya know Hannity has video on of the hysterical anti Kavanaugh protestors today. My impression is that this is a form of recreation for disturbed , bad looking people. Is that mean?


  116. AZfederalist
    120 | October 4, 2018 9:37 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Well, since I’m dealing with liberals, I tend to use small words and lots of colorful pictures.

    Or small pictures and lots of colorful words. That works too.


  117. AZfederalist
    121 | October 4, 2018 9:41 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Susan Collins has just declared the FBI rpt to be ‘very thorough’

    …and that’s her out to vote to confirm.


  118. AZfederalist
    122 | October 4, 2018 9:53 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    2 cars in 26 year? there is nothing from detroit big 3 that i am interested in buying because they aren’t as reliable and are not built like an MB. i don’t want a new car every few years.

    1997 Ford F-150. Almost 21 years old when I replaced it with my 2018 Dodge Ram. Not because the F-150 was falling apart — Federalist Jr is now driving it but because the Chrysler mini-van he was driving was beginning to scare me maintenance-wise. F-150 is still going strong with just regular wear and maintenance items.


  119. coldwarrior
    123 | October 4, 2018 9:54 pm

    RIX wrote:

    My impression is that this is a form of recreation for disturbed , bad looking people. Is that mean?

    hell no!

    its hysterical, because it’s true!


  120. AZfederalist
    124 | October 4, 2018 9:57 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    seems like ages ago

    Sadly because it was ages ago. 😆


  121. AZfederalist
    125 | October 4, 2018 9:59 pm

    rain of lead wrote:

    “Why don’t we dunk him in the water and see if he floats?” Graham shot back.

    Oh. My. Goodness. Lindsay Graham with a pair of brass ones. Maybe we are exiting the Twilight Zone.


  122. AZfederalist
    126 | October 4, 2018 10:00 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    does anyone believe that line anymore?

    Sadly, I’m afraid a lot of low info voters do


  123. coldwarrior
    127 | October 4, 2018 10:02 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    the f-150 is a legend…and totally useless for me. i’d own one if i had a use for it and didn’t have kids and a dog…hence the station wagon and now the probable M class.

    wife, 3 kids, and a medium dog don’t fit in a king cab, hence its useless to take on vacation or on frequent trips over the bridge and through the woods to g’ma’s house. pointless on my weekly 3-day travel commutes for just me and a couple bags to get to a far off hotel(hey, that’s not a bag, that’s my wife!…two drink minimum!)


  124. AZfederalist
    128 | October 4, 2018 10:08 pm

    RIX wrote:

    The Resistance is actually worse than you thought.

    Nope, they are exactly as I thought. Seeing the antifa knuckleheads going all fascist and brown shirt on people who were merely expressing their opinions pretty well demonstrated who and what they are. Nothing but modern day Bolsheviks. Good news is we haven’t been disarmed


  125. Bordm
    129 | October 4, 2018 10:13 pm

    RIX wrote:

    ya know Hannity has video on of the hysterical anti Kavanaugh protestors today. My impression is that this is a form of recreation for disturbed , bad looking people. Is that mean?

    I think it was Will Rogers who said something along the lines of ‘Politics is a lot like Hollywood, but for ugly people’….


  126. AZfederalist
    130 | October 4, 2018 10:14 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    the f-150 is a legend…and totally useless for me. i’d own one if i had a use for it and didn’t have kids and a dog…hence the station wagon and now the probable M class.

    Yep, gotta drive what fits your lifestyle. The pickup fits mine — woodworking, metalworking, and house stuff on weekends. We had a Sequoia for the family stuff — almost made 300K miles before being totaled, Mrs. Federalist is still really mad about that. SUV doesn’t fit out lifestyle anymore, we don’t need an 8 passenger vehicle, so she now also has a pickup — Extended cab so we can carry up to 5 people if needed and a cargo bed so she can do stuff for the rental house if she needs to without borrowing mine. … and lots of cargo space for traveling.


  127. coldwarrior
    131 | October 4, 2018 10:42 pm

    @ AZfederalist:
    5 peeps and one dog, that makes 6.

    I have my miata for other times.


  128. 132 | October 4, 2018 11:06 pm

    Just trashed my comment. Dianes has said he WILL be there for the vote. Man has a sense of duty.


  129. AZfederalist
    133 | October 4, 2018 11:25 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Just trashed my comment. Dianes has said he WILL be there for the vote. Man has a sense of duty.

    Not sure what to think of that. Missing your daughter’s wedding kind of seems like mis-placed priorities


  130. 134 | October 4, 2018 11:38 pm

    So… This youngster stopped by today. Asked me to play guitar for him. He’s pretty damned talented.

    https://www.reverbnation.co

    I guess I’ll meet with him a few times and see if anything clicks. Maybe I’ll go back to playing guitar again. Who knows?


  131. 135 | October 5, 2018 6:31 am

    @ AZfederalist:
    I wonder, with today’s technology, if we could have most elected officials stay in their home districts and meet online.


  132. 136 | October 5, 2018 6:35 am

    @ AZfederalist:
    @ doriangrey:

    I’m also wondering if Mitch hasn’t already got a plan. I believe they have to vote within 30 hours or so after the vote today. Maybe he will have them take both votes today.


  133. rain of lead
    137 | October 5, 2018 7:06 am

    morning y’all
    so this came out today

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/05/report-fords-fbi-friend-monica-mclean-pressured-witness-to-modify-testimony-and-statement/

    man, there really need to be some perp walks


  134. RIX
    140 | October 5, 2018 8:05 am

    Bordm wrote:

    RIX wrote:

    ya know Hannity has video on of the hysterical anti Kavanaugh protestors today. My impression is that this is a form of recreation for disturbed , bad looking people. Is that mean?

    I think it was Will Rogers who said something along the lines of ‘Politics is a lot like Hollywood, but for ugly people’….

    A wise man.


  135. coldwarrior
    141 | October 5, 2018 8:09 am

    right_wing2 wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:
    I wonder, with today’s technology, if we could have most elected officials stay in their home districts and meet online.

    stay in their districts and work? and face their constituents? and miss partying n the tax payers dime in DC?

    ha! never!


  136. coldwarrior
    142 | October 5, 2018 8:09 am

    rain of lead wrote:

    morning y’all
    so this came out today

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/05/report-fords-fbi-friend-monica-mclean-pressured-witness-to-modify-testimony-and-statement/

    man, there really need to be some perp walks

    as usual, no one will have to face the consequences of their actions.

    welcome to the new normal


  137. RIX
    143 | October 5, 2018 8:16 am

    rain of lead wrote:

    morning y’all
    so this came out today

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/05/report-fords-fbi-friend-monica-mclean-pressured-witness-to-modify-testimony-and-statement/

    man, there really need to be some perp walks

    Tom Clancy could not write this. These are some seriously evil people.


  138. yenta-fada
    144 | October 5, 2018 8:25 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    rain of lead wrote:

    morning y’all
    so this came out today

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/05/report-fords-fbi-friend-monica-mclean-pressured-witness-to-modify-testimony-and-statement/

    man, there really need to be some perp walks

    as usual, no one will have to face the consequences of their actions.

    welcome to the new normal

    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Y4SXWlQQ_tU/W7Szf99tblI/AAAAAAABvw0/Y98LjzM1CasAUl6dhEBBR9jxaugCwOywwCHMYCw/s1600-h/grapes%2Bof%2Bwrath%255B5%255D


  139. rain of lead
    145 | October 5, 2018 8:37 am

    @ yenta-fada:
    sundance over at the treehouse calls it COLD ANGER


  140. 146 | October 5, 2018 9:00 am

    @ coldwarrior:

    And this is where I hope Kavanaugh breaks precedent and sues not only these three harpies for slander and defamation but also their legal advisors. For too long the Democrats have gotten away with these unsubstantiated and highly suspect smears at the 11th hour, poison the public well and then sink below the depths, awaiting resurrection for the next hatchet job.

    These three women need and must held accountable for this under the law.


  141. yenta-fada
    147 | October 5, 2018 9:08 am

    Bordm wrote:

    RIX wrote:

    ya know Hannity has video on of the hysterical anti Kavanaugh protestors today. My impression is that this is a form of recreation for disturbed , bad looking people. Is that mean?

    I think it was Will Rogers who said something along the lines of ‘Politics is a lot like Hollywood, but for ugly people’….

    Hollywood and DC are both indeed in the business of show business.


  142. yenta-fada
    148 | October 5, 2018 9:40 am

    Grassley is calling the left wing dark money groups ‘monstrous’.
    “The fix was in.” He’s being devastatingly honest about the dirty tricks and giving examples (without the specific names). Directly blaming DiFi for holding back the letter though.


  143. lobo91
    149 | October 5, 2018 9:41 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:
    @ doriangrey:

    I’m also wondering if Mitch hasn’t already got a plan. I believe they have to vote within 30 hours or so after the vote today. Maybe he will have them take both votes today.

    No, that 30 hours is a minimum, not a time limit.

    The vote can’t be until at least Saturday


  144. RIX
    150 | October 5, 2018 9:42 am

    @ The Barbarian:
    Absolutely, I hope that Kavanaugh slaps defamation suits on the whole sleazy mob of them.
    Diane Feinstein and that Hirono creature ar a couple of witches. Kavanaugh will now carry this cloud for the rest of his life. And who will make his wife and little girls whole? Think that those kids might get bullied?


  145. 151 | October 5, 2018 9:42 am

    As the Kavanaugh vote is currently planned for Saturday, probably late, and since CW has the very fun NCAA thread up during the day, I imagine judging form the comments I’m seeing on Sunday that people aren’t all that interested in the sports angle anymore and would just rather have an open thread and a short essay to either comment on, etc. It looks like pretty much all of us have walked away from the NFL, so I could comment on Golf and NASCAR, but then those are two sports that don’t exactly rivet you to the living room couch.

    So should I retire the Sunday Sports Spectacular thread for now and in its place put in what I call a “thought” piece for Sunday? We are a blogmo”cracy” after all…..


  146. yenta-fada
    152 | October 5, 2018 9:50 am

    Live streaming slightly delayed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZgqEeybqBg


  147. yenta-fada
    153 | October 5, 2018 9:55 am

    @ The Barbarian:

    I vote for thought piece. This process takes precedent. Peeps can always check in their teams.


  148. rain of lead
    154 | October 5, 2018 9:57 am

    @ The Barbarian:

    I second yenta

    thought piece please
    besides, you writes guud


  149. yenta-fada
    155 | October 5, 2018 9:59 am

    RIX wrote:

    @ The Barbarian:
    Absolutely, I hope that Kavanaugh slaps defamation suits on the whole sleazy mob of them.
    Diane Feinstein and that Hirono creature ar a couple of witches. Kavanaugh will now carry this cloud for the rest of his life. And who will make his wife and little girls whole? Think that those kids might get bullied?

    What you said. Mark Judge could sue them as well though. Kavanaugh will be busy when Trump goes DIRECTLY after the Deep State. Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court is the first step.


  150. eaglesoars
    156 | October 5, 2018 10:00 am

    RIX wrote:

    Absolutely, I hope that Kavanaugh slaps defamation suits on the whole sleazy mob of them.

    I wonder if there is a group/class that would have standing somehow to sue. Not for defamation, as that is personal to Kavanaugh, but for something else.

    I’m expecting one last hurrah from the losing side. Not to attempt to save the situation, just a ‘fuck you, we’re not going away and the next time will be even worse’ kind of thing. You have to burn the village to save the village kind of thing


  151. yenta-fada
    157 | October 5, 2018 10:00 am

    rain of lead wrote:

    @ The Barbarian:

    I second yenta

    thought piece please
    besides, you writes guud

    And I can spel.


  152. darkwords
    158 | October 5, 2018 10:00 am

    @ The Barbarian:
    Thought piece with subtle jabs at the Patriots.


  153. darkwords
    159 | October 5, 2018 10:04 am

    @ The Barbarian:
    Agree. I have come to think of this Kavanaugh confirmation as critical for the survival of the country. This is a civil war without the bloodshed. We need to pursue the left and vanquish them. That means a meme and hashtag war. Getting local in the school districts.


  154. 160 | October 5, 2018 10:06 am

    RIX wrote:

    @ The Barbarian:
    Absolutely, I hope that Kavanaugh slaps defamation suits on the whole sleazy mob of them.
    Diane Feinstein and that Hirono creature ar a couple of witches. Kavanaugh will now carry this cloud for the rest of his life. And who will make his wife and little girls whole? Think that those kids might get bullied?

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they were already on the receiving end of bullying NOW. Liberal dickheads masquerading as parents would on doubt have said “I don’t want you talking to the Kavanaugh girls – their daddy is a rapist.” I imagine they are being home tutored for the time being.

    Some hack in The New Yorker has snotted that Kavanaugh has “weaponized” male crying. Jeez Louise – the man was talking about the prayers being said by his little girl. I can only imagine the holy hell those two little angels have gone through in the past month. And I’m sure one of their questions had to have been “why are they saying this about you, Daddy?”

    Mark Levin said it better than anyone. He would NEVER forgive the Senate Democrats for taking a good man, with a distinguished career, who had always wished “none harm” and reduced him to the point of tears on a national stage.


  155. 161 | October 5, 2018 10:07 am

    @ lobo91:

    Excellent news. I was not quite sure of the procedure. Which means Mitch can schedule it for Sunday. It’s not like the Democrats will have their schedule for attending church interrupted.


  156. yenta-fada
    162 | October 5, 2018 10:09 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    There’s a great guy named Dr. Dave Janda who does a radio show called “Operation Freedom” He’s an ortho surgeon who did Healthcare Policy in the Reagan administration. He’s retained his inside sources.
    He says Trump’s goal (and Kavanaugh’s) is the RESTITUTION OF LAW. Trump wants to use Military Tribunals against the swamp creatures according to Dr. Janda.


  157. 163 | October 5, 2018 10:10 am

    darkwords wrote:

    @ The Barbarian:
    Thought piece with subtle jabs at the Patriots.

    Always.


  158. eaglesoars
    164 | October 5, 2018 10:20 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    Trump wants to use Military Tribunals against the swamp creatures according to Dr. Janda.

    uh, no.


  159. eaglesoars
    165 | October 5, 2018 10:21 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    darkwords wrote:

    @ The Barbarian:
    Thought piece with subtle jabs at the Patriots.

    Always.

    WFT?? subtle? why subtle? what’s the point of subtle with that crew?


  160. eaglesoars
    166 | October 5, 2018 10:25 am

    scrolling thru my twitter feed and see this:

    Monica McLean and SKDKnickerbocker. How much were Ken Dilianian, WaPo, NYT, and New Yorker relying on these players?

    who is the Knickerbocker person?

    https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/1048215740476743680


  161. eaglesoars
    167 | October 5, 2018 10:28 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    who is the Knickerbocker person?

    ah

    SKDKnickerbocker is a progressive public affairs and political consulting firm that specializes in working for Democratic Party politicians. It has offices in Washington, DC, New York City, Los Angeles, CA, and Albany, New York.[1] The firm employs notable figures like former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, Bill Burton, and Hilary Rosen.[2][3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKDKnickerbocker


  162. 168 | October 5, 2018 10:30 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    darkwords wrote:

    @ The Barbarian:
    Thought piece with subtle jabs at the Patriots.

    Always.

    Hmm, The Patriots? Why would anyone make subtle jabs at a Curling team from Jamaica?


  163. darkwords
    169 | October 5, 2018 10:34 am

    @ coldwarrior:
    That is what concerns me also. There are these dire charges against the Trump administration yet the true evil walks free and unfettered.

    The Democrats seem to have no problem jailing as many Republican Senators as possible.

    The Republicans just can’t seem to bring themselves to the conclusion that they should cast aspersions on any of their good Senate Democratic colleagues.

    This is all a failure path Obama started.


  164. yenta-fada
    170 | October 5, 2018 10:37 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    So, a pro Moist group. *eyeroll*


  165. 171 | October 5, 2018 10:39 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    American Football is officially dead, mugged in a dark alley by Marxist thugs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1ocFKk7sY


  166. eaglesoars
    172 | October 5, 2018 10:42 am

    rain of lead wrote:

    morning y’all
    so this came out today

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/05/report-fords-fbi-friend-monica-mclean-pressured-witness-to-modify-testimony-and-statement/

    man, there really need to be some perp walks

    Is there a legal definition of ‘witness’? Would McLean be guilty of witness tampering? She’s FBI, she would know what the parameters are


  167. 173 | October 5, 2018 10:44 am

    @ darkwords:

    I would like a Senate investigation into this entire affair with Ford after the vote is over. Because the mechanisms for how this letter came to be, how it got to Feinstein, why she sat on it for six weeks, Katz, Ramirez, Avenutti and Swetnick all stink to high heaven. There is significant perjury involved here, as well as witness tampering, slander and defamation.


  168. eaglesoars
    174 | October 5, 2018 10:44 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    a pro Moist group

    hey, who doesn’t love hydration?


  169. eaglesoars
    175 | October 5, 2018 10:50 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    I would like a Senate investigation into this entire affair with Ford after the vote is over.

    must be your birthday

    Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Dr. Ford’s legal team late Thursday night asking for all of their communications with specific Democratic senators, the alleged witnesses to her getting assaulted, as well as the other alleged victims.

    Grassley specifically asked for all direct or indirect communications between Ford or her legal team and:

    “(1) U.S. Senators or their staffs, particularly the offices of Senators Feinstein and Hirono, other than your communications with me and my staff in preparation for the September 27 hearing; (2) the alleged witnesses identified by Dr. Ford (Leland Keyser, Mark Judge, and Patrick “P.J.” Smyth); and (3) Debbie Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, or their representatives.”

    The chairman did not specify what spurred this request. However, the Wall Street Journal may have uncovered a possible reason for it.

    The WSJ reported on Thursday night that Keyser, Ford’s life long friend, was pressured to revisit her initial statement. She reportedly accused another one of Ford’s friends, Monica McLean, who is a retired FBI agent, of applying said pressure.

    McLean reportedly told Keyser that the Republicans would use her sworn statement to discredit Dr. Ford.

    https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/05/grassley-ford-witnesses/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=atdailycaller


  170. 176 | October 5, 2018 10:50 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ darkwords:

    I would like a Senate investigation into this entire affair with Ford after the vote is over. Because the mechanisms for how this letter came to be, how it got to Feinstein, why she sat on it for six weeks, Katz, Ramirez, Avenutti and Swetnick all stink to high heaven. There is significant perjury involved here, as well as witness tampering, slander and defamation.

    Attorney General Deep State Jeff: Not5hing to see here, move along…


  171. 177 | October 5, 2018 10:51 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    In law, there are several catgories of witnesses: a “corroborating” witness is one who would have first-hand knowledge of an event, thereby providing corroboration for the allegation; there is the “exculpatory” or “alibi” witness that provides evidence that exonerates the accused in a credible fashion; and of course, there are “character” witnesses, who….the court only wants to hear from them at sentencing.

    McLean was tampering with on of Kavanaugh’s “exculpatory” witnesses.


  172. eaglesoars
    178 | October 5, 2018 10:52 am

    hadn’t thought of this one

    <emI want Hirono exposed. Been asking people to dig for over a week. Ford interned at University of Hawaii MANOA. The "Manoa" connection was scrubbed from the internet. Hirono went there years earlier. Sans Souci Beach is where Ford stayed – closest university is Manoa.

    https://twitter.com/KathrynMaga/status/1048220515297415168


  173. 179 | October 5, 2018 10:55 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    must be your birthday

    As a matter of fact, next Saturday (the 13th). I’ll be 65.


  174. eaglesoars
    180 | October 5, 2018 10:56 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    In law, there are several catgories of witnesses: a “corroborating” witness is one who would have first-hand knowledge of an event, thereby providing corroboration for the allegation; there is the “exculpatory” or “alibi” witness that provides evidence that exonerates the accused in a credible fashion; and of course, there are “character” witnesses, who….the court only wants to hear from them at sentencing.

    so if the allegation about McLean is true, she’s looking at a witness tampering charge


  175. 181 | October 5, 2018 11:01 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Yes she is. And from what I can tell, Leland Keyser’s friends and family want nothing more than to drop kick Ford and McLean over the Washington Monument, where they can both land on Debbie Katz.


  176. 182 | October 5, 2018 11:03 am

    Well, I don’t know how to interpret this: Murkowski just voted “no” on cloture to Kavanaugh’s nomination.

    Which, frankly, gives her cover. If Collins and Flake both vote Yes on the nomination and Manchin votes yes, she can vote “no” and be a hero to the liberals.

    UPDATE: Manchin voted YES on cloture. So perhaps Murkowski will enjoy her role as “the cheese stands alone.” Personally, I hope McConnell pays her back by giving her bulls**t committee assignments come January.


  177. eaglesoars
    183 | October 5, 2018 11:03 am

    @ The Barbarian:

    hahahahahahaha!! GREAT imagery!


  178. eaglesoars
    184 | October 5, 2018 11:05 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    Murkowski just voted “no” on cloture to Kavanaugh’s nomination.

    DiFi has something on her. She was positively cowed in that photo. Personally, I thought she’d run clear, but apparently there’s something going on, which I did not anticipate.


  179. 185 | October 5, 2018 11:08 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Maybe Dirty Dianne told her the next wave of protestors will be sent to HER office.


  180. eaglesoars
    186 | October 5, 2018 11:13 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:

    Maybe Dirty Dianne told her the next wave of protestors will be sent to HER office.

    She’s never won by a majority in Alaska, I don’t know enough about the politics there to really connect dots. But it doesn’t impress me as a ‘blue’ state.


  181. yenta-fada
    187 | October 5, 2018 11:24 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ darkwords:

    I would like a Senate investigation into this entire affair with Ford after the vote is over. Because the mechanisms for how this letter came to be, how it got to Feinstein, why she sat on it for six weeks, Katz, Ramirez, Avenutti and Swetnick all stink to high heaven. There is significant perjury involved here, as well as witness tampering, slander and defamation.

    Attorney General Deep State Jeff: Not5hing to see here, move along…

    I have read, granted from Canada, that Sessions has an impeccable reputation for honesty.


  182. yenta-fada
    188 | October 5, 2018 11:25 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    yenta-fada wrote:

    a pro Moist group

    hey, who doesn’t love hydration?

    I told yinz I could spel.


  183. 189 | October 5, 2018 11:25 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Solid Red as far as I know – maybe not in double digits for Trump like West Virginia and North Dakota. Murkowski won her seat initially by running as a sore loser and invoking her father’s name when she lost the Republican nomination. I can’t remember if she ran as a Republican for re-election (probably) but if she “flakes” on this vote, I can only guess she’s hoping the voters will forget about it by the next time she has to run.

    Yeah, no. Check the symbol of the party, there, Lisa with an “S”.


  184. 190 | October 5, 2018 11:32 am

    @ The Barbarian:

    Murky won the old fashioned way… She employed the help of a highly corrupt old boys network.


  185. 191 | October 5, 2018 11:33 am

    yenta-fada wrote:

    I have read, granted from Canada, that Sessions has an impeccable reputation for honesty.

    Yes, he is honestly a member of the corrupt Deep State.


  186. yenta-fada
    192 | October 5, 2018 11:34 am

    From comments at Legal Insurrection.

    Wonder if Senate Democrats are regretting pushing for that whole FBI investigation at this point. If not, after they read Senator Grassley’s letter they should be, especially Senators Dianne Feinstein and Mazie Hirono.

    The whole letter is really good (unless you’re Ford’s attorneys), but pay special attention to the last paragraph:

    He wrote, ‘I urge you once again, now for the third time in writing, to turn over therapy notes … ‘ which is no surprise but HERE’S where it gets interesting … ‘please turn over records and descriptions of direct or indirect communications between Dr. Ford or her representatives and any of the following: (1) U.S. Senators or their staffs, PARTICULARLY THE OFFICES OF SENATORS FEINSTEIN AND HIRONO.’


  187. 194 | October 5, 2018 11:53 am

    doriangrey wrote:

    @ The Barbarian:

    Murky won the old fashioned way… She employed the help of a highly corrupt old boys network.

    And I was wrong – Trump won Alaska by 15%. She’s toast in the next election. I hope Sarah Palin runs.


  188. 195 | October 5, 2018 11:54 am

    @ yenta-fada:

    I’ve never seen that photo before. That is a very aggressive posture by Feinstein and look on her face.


  189. 196 | October 5, 2018 11:56 am

    I’ve always wondered if Feinstein got the head’s up this letter was coming but had it delivered via Eshoo to make it look more “civic duty-ish”

    I’m very curious as to what was scrubbed from her social media accounts. I thought someone managed to grab a screenshot from last year where she says “someone ought to accuse Gorsich of rape.”


  190. eaglesoars
    197 | October 5, 2018 11:57 am

    The Barbarian wrote:

    I hope Sarah Palin runs.

    she said she and Todd are leaving Alaska

    The Barbarian wrote:

    I’ve never seen that photo before.

    That’s one photo of a sequence I was referring to


  191. coldwarrior
    198 | October 5, 2018 12:03 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    I can only imagine the holy hell those two little angels have gone through in the past month. And I’m sure one of their questions had to have been “why are they saying this about you, Daddy?”

    i am sure his girls have had a good talking to and understand completely why and what is going on.


  192. coldwarrior
    200 | October 5, 2018 12:09 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    The Republicans just can’t seem to bring themselves to the conclusion that they should cast aspersions on any of their good Senate Democratic colleagues.

    its time to hang some pelts on the wall


  193. yenta-fada
    201 | October 5, 2018 12:10 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    I’ve never seen that photo before. That is a very aggressive posture by Feinstein and look on her face.

    DiFi. Understudy for The Godfather? MENACE.


  194. 202 | October 5, 2018 12:19 pm

    @ yenta-fada:

    In the end, RED California will not vote for her and the California Democrat Committee has endorsed her opponent, which means they will not be giving her any money. We won’t pick up a seat in the Senate, but her days are numbered.


  195. 203 | October 5, 2018 12:25 pm

    The Barbarian wrote:

    @ yenta-fada:

    In the end, RED California will not vote for her and the California Democrat Committee has endorsed her opponent, which means they will not be giving her any money. We won’t pick up a seat in the Senate, but her days are numbered.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIdRJlzERo


  196. coldwarrior
    204 | October 5, 2018 1:36 pm

    neuveau thread


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